Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in El Segundo, California, United States. Employment requires authorization to work in the U.S. and eligibility as a U.S. person for access to export-controlled technology.

Salary: $169,067–$216,031 per year, plus potential stock options and/or long-term cash awards.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing payloads, reentry capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain high-reliability ground-segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
• Build operator-grade mission-control UIs and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
• Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
• Design and productionize CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, observability, service templates, and self-service mission tooling.
• Develop deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
• 5+ years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
• Strong Python expertise and systems fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, scaling, and distribution services with time-series and relational databases.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, and phased rollouts.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and qualify as a U.S. person under applicable export-control requirements.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI.
• Experience with data acquisition, closed-loop control, mission-grade UIs, structured command workflows, alarming, and situational awareness.
• Experience with requirements, testing, certification artifacts, ground-system standards, or security in mission networks.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with flexible paid time off and 12 paid holidays.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• Parental, family-building, pregnancy, parenting, menopause, and One Medical benefits.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match, incentive equity, and wellness reimbursement.
• Relocation support may be available for new hires, with catered meals, team events, and complimentary EV charging.